Joe Dante

Joe Dante

Birthday: 1946-11-28

Place of birth: Morristown, New Jersey, USA

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0001102

Biography:

Joseph James Dante Jr. (born November 28, 1946) is an American filmmaker, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably Gremlins (1984) alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)—often mix the 1950s-style B movie genre with 1960s radicalism and cartoon comedy. Dante's output includes the films Piranha (1978), The Howling (1981), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs (1989), Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998), and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). His work for television and cable include the social satire The Second Civil War (1997), episodes of the anthology series Masters of Horror ("Homecoming" and "The Screwfly Solution") and Amazing Stories, as well as Police Squad! and Hawaii Five-0. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Dante, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Played in movies:

Boris Karloff:  The Rest of the Story

Score: 10.0

Spider Stravinsky: The Cinema Sounds of Ronald Stein

Score: 9.5

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy

Score: 9.5

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

Score: 9.0

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

Score: 8.5

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!

Score: 8.1

A Century of Cinema

Score: 8.0

The Magical World of Chuck Jones

Score: 8.0

Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!

Score: 8.0

42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street

Score: 7.8

In Search of Darkness: Part II

Score: 7.7

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Score: 7.7

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

Score: 7.7

Cinerama Adventure

Score: 7.6

Lugosi: The Dark Prince

Score: 7.6

Karloff: The Gentle Monster

Score: 7.6

In Search of Darkness

Score: 7.6

The Perfect Scary Movie

Score: 7.5

Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters

Score: 7.5

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

Score: 7.5

She's Alive! Creating 'The Bride of Frankenstein'

Score: 7.5

Love, Antosha

Score: 7.4

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

Score: 7.4

Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years

Score: 7.4

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

Score: 7.4

Trailer War

Score: 7.4

In Search of Darkness: Part III

Score: 7.4

Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film

Score: 7.3

Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex

Score: 7.2

Soylent Green and Red Alert: When Reality Catches Up with Fiction

Score: 7.2

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

Score: 7.2

Corman's World

Score: 7.1

Tales of the Uncanny

Score: 7.1

Behind the Tunes: Bosko, Buddy and the Best of Black and White

Score: 7.0

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

Score: 7.0

Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go to War!

Score: 7.0

Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins

Score: 7.0

From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures

Score: 7.0

Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs

Score: 7.0

Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.

Score: 7.0

That Guy Dick Miller

Score: 7.0

Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon

Score: 7.0

24×36

Score: 7.0

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

Score: 7.0

The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth

Score: 7.0

Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida

Score: 7.0

Sad Hill Unearthed

Score: 7.0

Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion

Score: 6.9

Innerspace

Score: 6.8

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

Score: 6.8

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

Score: 6.8

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

Score: 6.8

Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

Score: 6.8

Edgar G. Ulmer – Der Mann im Off

Score: 6.8

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

Score: 6.8

American Grindhouse

Score: 6.8

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

Score: 6.7

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

Score: 6.6

A Fuller Life

Score: 6.6

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

Score: 6.6

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

Score: 6.6

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Score: 6.5

Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer

Score: 6.5

In Search of Tomorrow

Score: 6.5

Eating Raoul

Score: 6.5

Monsterland

Score: 6.5

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

Score: 6.4

Oscar

Score: 6.3

Sleepwalkers

Score: 6.0

The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry

Score: 6.0

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

Score: 6.0

The Return of the Living Dead:  The Decade of Darkness

Score: 6.0

Hitchcocked!

Score: 6.0

Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror

Score: 6.0

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema

Score: 6.0

Piranha

Score: 6.0

Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre

Score: 5.9

Beverly Hills Cop III

Score: 5.9

Razzennest

Score: 5.8

The Butterfly Room

Score: 5.8

Tales of Halloween

Score: 5.7

Out of Print

Score: 5.7

Hollywood Boulevard

Score: 5.5

Cannonball

Score: 5.5

Long Live the King

Score: 5.2

Hollywood Rated 'R'

Score: 5.1

Direct Your Own Damn Movie!

Score: 5.0

The Silence of the Hams

Score: 4.9

Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet

Score: 4.5

The Flesh and the Fury: X-posing Twins of Evil

Score: 4.3

There Goes the Neighborhood: The Making of The 'Burbs

Score: 4.1

Blast Vegas

Score: 3.5

Boorman and the Devil

Score: 0.0

The AckerMonster Chronicles!

Score: 0.0

RKO, A Story made in Hollywood

Score: 0.0

RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”

Score: 0.0

The Bloodiest Show on Earth: Making Vampire Circus

Score: 0.0

Tidal Wave

Score: 0.0

The Future of Fear

Score: 0.0

Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director

Score: 0.0

Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

Score: 0.0

Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’

Score: 0.0

Behind the Tunes: Tish Tash - The Animated World of Frank Tashlin

Score: 0.0

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

Score: 0.0

Class of '79: 40 Years of Rock 'N' Roll High School

Score: 0.0

Mark of The Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf

Score: 0.0

To Be... A Film Favorite

Score: 0.0

Fulci in the House: The Italian Master of Splatter

Score: 0.0

Welcome to Werewolfland

Score: 0.0

The Hatching of Spider Baby

Score: 0.0

Unspeakable Horrors: The Plan 9 Conspiracy

Score: 0.0

Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur

Score: 0.0

Making The Earth Stand Still

Score: 0.0

The Reality Trip

Score: 0.0

The Birds: Hitchcock's Monster Movie

Score: 0.0

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

Score: 0.0

The Creeps

Score: 0.0

Sharksploitation

Score: 0.0

We Come In Pieces: The Rebirth of the Horror Anthology Film

Score: 0.0

The Fear is Real

Score: 0.0

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

Score: 0.0

Making a Monster Movie: Inside 'the Howling'

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

100 Scariest Movie Moments

Score: 8.0

Eerie, Indiana

Score: 7.6

Leçon de Cinéma

Score: 7.0

The Real History of Science Fiction

Score: 6.9

The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time

Score: 6.8

Eli Roth's History of Horror

Score: 6.4

Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow

Score: 6.0

Great Performances

Score: 5.5